Its not the 8% annual money supply growth that is skyrocketing home values via the cantillon effect and devaluing your salary, its “capitalism”.
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toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•"Strong Borders Bill" is an attack on canadian privacy, immigrants, refugees, and is unconstitutional7·14 hours agoThe problem as far as I’ve read from Sam Cooper is the lack of policies like racketeering laws in Canada, thus we are used worldwide by criminal entities for laundering money. Which is likely the larger issue Trump has with drugs, and likely is a big reason how housing in Vancouver can be millions of dollars when the median salary is less than 70k.
Theres a long form interview here, Sam Cooper is a journalist who wrote Wilfull Blindness:
@17:45 the interview starts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B73Tayj37sM
Everyone should have a separate one for their finances, that they dont give out to anyone except banks and brokerages.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Women Leaders Urge Canada to Resume Climate Disclosure Efforts1·2 days agoThe founder of this organization was clearly grifting money using these green funds. I’m sure she wants that to continue.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillanceEnglish3·2 days agoSnowden may disagree with that.
She helped Germany de-provision their nuclear energy via emotion driven policy, so they could inevitably deploy coal to avoid deindustrialization.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre's new "image" guy is a big red flag + premiers talk pipelines as provinces burn62·3 days agoAlbertan oil has displaced a massive amount of coal, which has actually lead to a reduction in c02 emissions.
If you want to fight climate change more effective actions would be rezoning housing federally for unlimited density based on a total free market like Japan did, and investing in mass transit. We do still remain the only country in the G7 without high speed rail.
The problem is climate change is used as a political grift to attract votes, they dont actually care about fighting it, if you did you’d also be cutting off Chinese imports and dealing with a tidal wave of mortgage defaults from inflation and higher interest rates.
Is it just people having unrealistic expectations of what a corporation can do?
How can such an entity have empathy, its like expecting a computer algorithm to have empathy. Pure fewelishness.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)English7·3 days agoAn interesting fact about Europe is they’ve long disobeyed their own procurement laws to choose Microsoft software, whether its corruption or what I’ve got no idea, I assume so though.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•The Christian Movement That Wants to End Canadian Self-Rule12·3 days agoA world leading housing bubble, and wages lower than the poorest US state, I assume. As bad as the US is they didn’t have the second worst per capita GDP growth in the OECD while they imported a massive number of UN wage slaves to depress salaries and hide falling GDP during a housing crisis.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Scotiabank holds customer responsible for almost $20K in credit card fraud2·3 days agoSo they hacked the account with two pieces of public information, the birth date and maiden name?
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney signals a welcome new approach to governing. It’s about accountability1·3 days agoThe theory I’ve heard that seems to be coming true is that America wanted Carney in order to build a pipeline through Quebec, using a constitutional crisis as the opportunity to do so. Pierre wouldn’t be able to as a Con, but a progressive doing so will be palatable enough theoretically.
If Fox news started praising Biden I’d be equally suspicious, definitely their donors pushing an agenda.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake1·3 days agoA minimum income can do it better, with less waste on things people don’t prioritize. A poor person wants better quality food, not a gym membership.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!English274·3 days agoA 2tb SSD can now be bought for 100$ at least.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measureEnglish171·3 days agoI due not want my corporation holding Bitcoin, if I want exposure I’ll buy Bitcoin directly. They should be holding a bit of debt optimally.
These Gazans are going to get eliminated, nobody wants to help them, just ask Kuwait and Lebanon. Israels tolerance for terrorism was the only reason they were still alive to begin with, and the murder spree has broken that tolerance.
Imagine if you were an Israeli citizen and there were religious fanatics coming into your towns and murdering and kidnapping everyone, what would be your response and expectation of your government?
Maybe the democrats could try choosing a decent candidate if they want to win?
Choosing Hillary Clinton was brain dead, and that gave Trump his first win, which is what got us into this mess.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•Kids' cavities would increase by millions if every state banned fluoride, study findsEnglish1·5 days agoMmm, the listeria builds a stronk immunity.
toastmeister@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake23·5 days agoWhy stop there? Clean water is a convenience isn’t it? What about fire departments? That’s a convenience. People could do these things on their own. They should be rugged individualist and always take care of themselves right? Why do we need roads? People should just pave their own roads right?
I believe water is done privately, as are utilities. Roads are obviously difficult to do when managing the various tolls, and eminent domain, an issue package delivery would never run into. Fire department I think you’d run into issues with housing density, given you can just let peoples house burn down without affecting others.
But I can understand the desire I suppose, I just feel like we are subsidizing private corporations. I’d at least like a law that required it was free shipping only for Canadian companies or maybe Canadian product.
So capitalism leads to fascism, and its socialism we want; is that right?